Static_Redstone and Static_Player are both NBT tags that can be added to any item.

What it Does:

Static_Redstone, as its name states, makes any item it is applied to unable to be pushed or pulled by hoppers, dispensed by a dispenser or dropper, or pushed into another container via dropper. Static_Player makes the item, once placed into a container, unable to be moved around within or taken out of said container unless said player is in creative mode, in which they may move items with the tag with impunity.

Gold Plate

What it is:

An item that can be crafted using four gold nuggets in a 2x2 square pattern, which innately has the Static_Redstone NBT tag suggested above.

Many thanks to Shaddura for providing this crafting recipe visual!

What it Does:

Gold Plates provide the average non-creative/OP player with access to the Static_Redstone tag, allowing their redstone machinery to benefit from its use, as well as offering another use for gold.

Lock Hopper

What it is:

A variant of the hopper that can be crafted by placing a gold ingot above a pre-crafted hopper.

Its GUI is modified so that its five inventory slots are rimmed by a gold-colored line in order to distinguish it from an ordinary hopper.

Many more thanks to Shaddura for this awesome example GUI!

What it Does:

When an item is placed into one of its slots by any means, the item stays in the slot and is not pushed out nor can it be pulled out of the hopper by another hopper. If another of the same item enters the hopper, it will stack like normal on to the original item. However, this item is not granted the immunity of the first item, and will be pushed out of the hopper if given the chance. The Lock Hopper will allow any duplicate items to leave, but will always keep one of the item in the slot that the first item was placed in. Beyond this, it will function as a regular hopper, including being stopped by a redstone signal, and releasing its items left-to-right.

So basically both aid in sorting and selecting. I like the first, as it seems simple and straightforwards. I would suggest making it four ingots, though, as gold has little usage anyways and such a valuable characteristic should be more expensive. It means that I can sort anything without accidentally screwing up the machine.

The second one... I'm not sure. It might make sorting too easy. Redstone is complexity created out of simple components. This might be too complex of a component on its own. And, as with the last idea, it should be a gold ingot in the recipe either way.

I'm not really a redstone worker, more of a dabbler. I hope you get some feedback from someone who works more heavily with redstone.

I would suggest making it four ingots, though, as gold has little usage anyways and such a valuable characteristic should be more expensive.

My reasoning for choosing nuggets as opposed to ingots was that if I were, say, wanting to build a printer or some other large mechanism, I may need to wall off twenty or more slots in one double chest. The amount of gold needed would be staggering, and it isn't exactly common.

And, as with the last idea, it should be a gold ingot in the recipe either way.

I already personally think that hoppers are ridiculously costly for what they do and how many of them many machines need; I don't want these things to be so expensive that they're the #1 thing preventing people from building their creations.

I like these ideas! Pretty creative
Just a few questions:
For the gold plate, there are other items that cannot be pushed by pistons, so im not sure how this is different. Also, I am not a pro with redstone circuitry so maybe I just don't understand
And regarding the hopper... Will you ever be able to get the items out? Maybe by breaking the hopper?

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An item that can be crafted using four gold nuggets in a 2x2 square pattern, which innately has the Static_Redstone NBT tag suggested above.

I made you a visualization of the recipe! (So now you won't need the sorta-blurry image of the gold plate sprite)

Lock HopperWhat it is: A variant of the hopper that can be crafted by adding a gold nugget above the chest in the standard hopper crafting recipe. Its GUI is modified so that its five inventory slots are rimmed by a gold-colored line in order to distinguish it from an ordinary hopper.Such MS Paint. Very Picture.

MS Paint is not a good program for image editing, I suggest using Gimp or Paint.net instead.
Anyways, I made a visualization which should hopefully look a bit better (It came out looking a bit mustardy though...)

I noticed that your aren't very experienced at working with images (no offense) so I made some for you, since I like this suggestion.

I made you a visualization of the recipe! (So now you won't need the sorta-blurry image of the gold plate sprite)

MS Paint is not a good program for image editing, I suggest using Gimp or Paint.net instead.
Anyways, I made a visualization which should hopefully look a bit better (It came out looking a bit mustardy though...)

If you use either of these images, please do credit me.

Those are worlds better than what I currently have! Thanks!
They've been included in the original post, and you have been credited.I actually made a crafting recipe like the one you gave, but I deleted it like a doof and used a copy of my avatar instead.

I think the two NBT tags are a great idea, but I don't really see a use in the Gold Plate and the new hoppers... How could that be useful?

The gold plate allows survival players to create an item with the proposed Static_Player NBT tag, which in turn allows for much easier construction of machines such as auto brewers and printers. It also can be used by mapmakers as a quick way of walling off slots in a container.

The lock hopper makes sorting item flows much easier and is able to sort multiple items. It can also be utilized by mapmakers to make more sophisticated multiple choice and decision-based mechanisms.

I admit I had to read this twice to get what you where talking about, but I love it. The one thing is making the locked hopper should take more than a single nugget. If the gold plate takes 4 nuggets to craft and hoppers have 5 slots, than you have 1 nugget doing the work of 20. I'd go with a full Ingot to craft the Locked Hopper, because 55% resource savings is fair but 95% savings is overboard.

All in all I like it all. I'm really OCD about organizing things and this would cut down on micro-managing without letting the game "play itself" as they say.

I admit I had to read this twice to get what you where talking about, but I love it. The one thing is making the locked hopper should take more than a single nugget. If the gold plate takes 4 nuggets to craft and hoppers have 5 slots, than you have 1 nugget doing the work of 20. I'd go with a full Ingot to craft the Locked Hopper, because 55% resource savings is fair but 95% savings is overboard.]

Ehh, maybe you're right about the gold ingot in the lock hopper recipe.

I think I'll actually make a gold ingot an an existing hopper the recipe; I think the functionality justifies the cost, and no one really has much more of a use for gold.

If I may, I'd like to request an updated recipe from a certain kawaii lizard.